Use foolish in a sentence

But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]

But if you wish our friendship to continue, give up these foolish attempts to teach tortoises to fly. [10]

How foolish we were! [5]

I know her well, and mean, with your kind help, to save her from the consequences which her foolish adventure might have brought upon her. [6]

How foolish I was! [5]

And henceforth he was as foolish as her brothers. [11]

I have been very near to him, and have tried not to worry him or ask many foolish questions. [9]

I have been very foolish. [5]

You would be very foolish if you did not. [11]

How could this vain, foolish sport have pleased her after she had yielded herself, soul and body, to the highest and greatest of men! [10]

To have fallen under suspicion of heresy would have been the last thing Barbara expected, and she called it foolish, nay, ridiculous. [10]

Let none list to this false and foolish matter, upon pain of death, nor discuss the same, nor carry it abroad. [5]

It was foolish to raise his wishes so high, but he told himself that he had never beheld a woman more to be desired. [10]

But she said to herself that she was foolish, that her love had made her so. [11]

Melissa nodded gratefully to her brother, but Heron remained firm in his assertion that to think of flight would be foolish, or at least premature. [10]

I still believe to have stayed with him would have been a foolish and useless sacrifice . [9]

This was enough to fill his thought with foolish anticipations. [4]

It is foolish to dream, and I had long since ceased to do so. [11]

It is foolish to dismiss a man in a temper. [11]

I had to tie my collar on, because there was no button behind on that foolish little shirt which I described a while ago. [5]

Heaven grant that this which I have been compelled to hear may be no more than a fleeting and foolish whim! [10]

I have been thinking of this ever since, and cannot but think such a notion is utterly foolish. [7]

And pray for the young and the daring and the foolish. [11]

It was not the way of the people and time, and ended in absurd complications, if anybody was foolish enough to try it. [6]

He feeds on the madder of his delusion all his days, and his very bones grow red with the glow of his foolish fancy. [6]

He looked at the foolish little woman with so cruel a flash of the eye that she shrank back. [11]

His dress was the extreme of the fantastic; as showy and foolish as the sort of thing an Indian medicine-man wears. [5]

He felt sure that she would not let Lurida commit herself by writing foolish letters to the subject of her speculations, or similar indiscreet performances. [6]

I am glad that no possible combination of words could describe them, for I might then be foolish enough to attempt it. [5]

But was not that foolish? [10]

He shrugged his shoulders at that, he insisted that his lawyer should not reply to the foolish and insulting suggestion. [11]

So that thee should have such sort of experience, though I was but a foolish choice of the experiment. [11]

Cynthia felt that she was to be of these, though she could not reason why, and she told herself that the feeling was foolish. [9]

No foolish passion shall prevent the convalescent youth from following his father upward along the pathway of fame. [10]

His Catholic Majesty sent word from Spain to Mr. Jefferson that he was sorry his Intendant had been so foolish. [9]

She fancied she saw Cambyses holding out his hand as if to ask forgiveness for his hastiness and foolish jealousy. [10]

Your wealth is said to be vast, though the foolish war which Antony, with your aid, so greatly prolonged, devoured vast sums. [10]

He tried to remember whether he had not done anything else that was foolish. [2]

A foolish story reached his ears that he was attempting to buy up stray copies for the sake of suppressing it. [6]

Her face was radiant with happiness, and Mela was watching her with foolish, unselfish pleasure in her bliss. [8]

He dreaded to push an explanation, and, foolish as lovers are, he was wise for once in trusting to time. [4]

Is there a poor, foolish, old, scattering flint-lock for rabbit, and a long-range, centre-driving, up-to-date Mauser-magazine for elephant? [5]

The Governor, whose petty vanity was roused, showed a foolish fury at seeing me, and straightway ordered me to the citadel again. [11]

So many foolish persons are rushing into print, that it requires a kind of literary police to hold them back and keep them in order. [6]

The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. [5]

Our Celtic Bridget, or Biddy, is not a foolish fat scullion to burst out crying for a sentiment. [6]

She had gone off on some foolish but innocent excursion. [6]

Why, how foolish of her it had been to feel so much and to imagine terrible things! [11]

You were foolish; now you are wise. [11]

For I was not so foolish as to put it into his hands. [9]

I resolved to not go into such a foolish experiment. [4]

And so they nodded invisibly and smiled inwardly with satisfaction, and looked to see this foolish lad stricken with a palsy of guilty confusion. [5]

All this while, my dears, I was aching to be off to Arlington Street, but a foolish pride held me back. [9]

I was jealous, mad, and foolish, and I left her. [11]

Now, foolish wench, let me be. [10]

If one were less greedy or less foolish, some one else would have and would shine at his expense. [8]

But I will leave speaking of such foolish things and come now to the point. [10]

There is a law working with which there should be no tampering, lest in foolish interruption come only confusion and disaster. [11]

Ah, Robert, I know you think me fanciful and foolish, as indeed I am; but you must bear with me. [11]

But as she knew little of his former life and works, I told her of his foolish pranks and chivalrous deeds. [10]

Valiant had a kind of courage, but she was foolish to die. [11]

And in addition it were foolish to believe that the garrison had not been warned. [9]

Creamer had got it into her foolish head that she would marry that young fellow, if she could catch him. [6]

Believe me, there is no one quite so foolish as the professional student of character. [11]

Then Barbara flew into such a rage that the foolish woman forgot to take the fever into account, and determined to return home. [10]

I suppose that in the beginning I prized it, because we prize anything that is ours; and yet how foolish it was to think so. [5]

A foolish mood, I thought it, but one of feeling things to come. [9]

Judging from after-developments I suppose it was what the foolish call occult sympathy. [11]

All these years I have implored you to stop this foolish custom and husband your means, but all in vain. [5]

The more difficult I found it to regain my peace of mind, the more foolish it would be to expose it to fresh peril. [10]

I once thought I could stand alone, that I had solved all problems for myself, but I know now how foolish I was. [9]

Why will you humbug yourselves with that foolish notion that no lie is a lie except a spoken one? [5]

And it made him laugh, too, as soon as he thought what a foolish question it was. [5]

Do not judge him by his odd and foolish words. [11]

She heard behind her a laugh of foolish good-nature, which made her angry too, for it seemed to be making fun of her. [11]

The lights of heaven shine for the foolish as well as for the wise. [10]

In this foolish heart of mine passionate hatred has given way to no less fervent love. [10]

I should think he would feel foolish. [5]

All of us have injured our books in that foolish way. [5]

Would it not have been foolish to bear this intolerable, alarming mood until the midnight meal? [10]

What secret influence had he over her that made her submit to such a foolish surrender? [4]

I am far from deploring sacrifice, yet common-sense tells us that our sacrifice should be guided by judgment, that foolish sacrifices are worse than useless. [9]

That would be foolish. [5]

It would be foolish. [5]

George was pretty foolish. [11]

He felt exceedingly foolish, but an answer came to him. [9]

The dog looked foolish, and probably felt so; but there was resentment in his heart, too, and a craving for revenge. [5]

Oh, I was foolish too, I know. [9]

But I was foolish to think that thought and hope that hope. [5]

Archibius deemed it foolish to commence a conflict unnecessarily. [10]

How false and foolish this was! [10]

It is a foolish thing to say that reverence must go with love. [11]

Dyck had a foolish strain in him, after all. [11]

It was a foolish sort of avarice. [5]

It shows how foolish people are when they blame themselves for anything they have done. [5]

Your empty and foolish imaginings are profanation and blasphemy, and can do you an injury. [5]

He was not foolish enough to make a scene. [6]

Away, then, with foolish doubts! [10]

Most of our foolish conceits explain themselves in some such simple way. [6]

He had a foolish career, and you are the result. [11]

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